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Waaagh Uzdreg; Ork Modeling/Painting

I’ve had a chance over the past two weeks to start collecting a Warhammer 40K ork army, beginning with two mobs of ork boyz(20 boys total, which will be combined into one mob of shoota boys), and a metal warboss with a twin-linked shoota and big choppa. I had wanted to collect an ork army for the longest time, simply to paint and model, because orks have always been one of my favorite armies in the Warhammer universe, but I’d put off the army for a really long time. Finally, I decided that it was time to start collecting, even if I won’t play for a long, long time.

The older metal warbosses and nobs(ork nobles) in particular had always appealed to me, so when I found a new-in-blister ork warboss on Ebay for $9+shipping, I jumped on it. I’ve decided that the army will be a mix of Bad Moons and Death Skulls, whose colors are yellow and blue, respectively. It should look great on the tabletop, when everything is said and done.

If you’ve been following my blog, you know that my warboss is Uzdreg da Bloo Bearded, who got a hair squig stuck to his face and earned the admiration of the Death Skulls that snuck aboard his space hulk. I’ve modeled the beard onto the warboss’ head with green stuff, and I’m excited to see it painted and done. The body of Uzdreg is also slowly getting finished, and I like how the skin and armor turned out.

The yellow Bad Moon armor is done in a series of consecutively lighter brown coats, starting with P3 Battlefield Brown and ending in several washes of GW Yriel Yellow. It’s going to take me forever to paint all the ork boyz. But the end result will be stunning, I think.

Check out the pictures:

This is Uzdreg and the ladz.

It’s hard to make out, but here is Uzdreg and his beard.

Body of Uzdreg with a boy next to him for comparison. Warbosses are ‘uge!

And finally, Uzdreg’s choppa arm and some of the body armor he’s wearing.